New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-11-02
MINNESOTA NE S ITEMS.

commission at the State capitol was tls
scene OF a protracted war of words bes
tween the officials Of the Milwaukee roae
and residents of the towns along the line
nj the Iowa & Minnesota division. On
Sept. 26. in response to request made
by citizens OF Faribault, NCrthfeld and
other towns in the southern portion OF the
state, and after a personal investigation
into the matter, the commission ordered
reductiono OF about 10 per cent in the rate
on various articles OF merchandise, and
at this meeting the railroad vigorously
protested.
The olidated Vermillion Iron com
pany at Duluth has, it is reported about
concluded a sale OF the hall interest in the
company for $500, 900. The purchasers
are wealthy English corporations.
After an illness extending over a year,
Mrs. Gustaye Heinemann, wife Of one of
St. Pauls best known merchants and citi-
zens, died suddenly.
W. G. Meelens, formerly station agent at
Hoffman, Grant county, is charged with
embezZing funds OF the Minneapolis &
Pacific railroad company while in it's EN-
ploy.
The dwelling OF Mrs. William, O'Neal,
near Rice Station above st. Cloud, was
totally destroyed, with its contents, by
lire during her absence. Loss, So, 600; in
surance, on building, 81, 200; 5000 on con-
tents. Between $4,000 and $4,000 in
notes and mortgages were also burned.
A three-year-old son of Gotlieb Dreher,
living in Nicollet County, two miles north
OF Mankato, wandered away from home.
He was afterward found dead and frozen
stiffa few rods from the house
J. H. Bates, a well.known business mar
OF Minneapolis, commits suicide.
no zeA -
the third week in October show hand
some increase over the same period last
year.
Burglars entered NJ. A. Bussen & Co.'s
store at Richmond, Stearns county. and
blew the safe, but only got the outer doors
open.
The Duke OF Marlborough called on p
Il. Kelley at st. Paul. and an interesting
conversation ensued.
At St. Peter, Ben Winkel.. a prominent
st. Paul citizen, and Miss Emma Bohrer,
OF st. Peter, were married at the Catholic
church by Rev. Father Sorenson.
Three thousand dollars was appropriat-
ed ny the council of Hastings to r. O.
Llbbey to aid in boring for natural gas. A
quarter interest IN the we'll will be owned
by the city.
Red Wing Special. G. W. Richardson
OF Austin, Tex, arrived here. bringing
With him the corpse OF his wife, who died
at her home of malarial fever. She was
slSty.six years OF age. MIR. and Mrs. Rich
ardson were residents OF this city from
1868 to 1875, when they removed to Tex
as. MIR. Richardson is presiding elder OF
the Austin (Tex.) district. The remains
will be buried in the family lot in the town
OF WEIGH.
Clearwater, Wright county, has a sensa-
ton which has developed into a divorce
suit. The mother-in-law ofone OF tho local
physicians found him in a compromising
situation with the servant girl one night.
The doctor has consented to seek another
location.
John H. Cameron OF Dakota was arrest.
ed while very drunk on the street OF St.
Cloud and placed in Jail. He was taken
violently sick and died suddenly. He has
brother at Grafton.
The low mercury of the 25th ruined
potatoes in some localities.
A young man named Norton Lane, who
has been working on the D.. H. & D. grade,
while out hunting four miles northeast OF
Benson. Swift county, accidentally shot
himself and was found dead He was
twenty-four years DID, unmarried and
came from Blue Earth county. He owned
a small farm west OF Mankato.
W. E. Seelye a lumber operator found q
few miles from Brainerd large ledge OF
rock outcropping where iron was supposed
to be in that region. He clipped
oil some specimens, and believes. on ex.
animation, that he has some miner al besr-
ing rock.
General Manager Roswell Miller, OF tbs
Milwaukee & St. Paul thinks that rail-
road is the only thing in this country
which can be regulated, and says there are
lots OF people toying to regulate them. He
says the milk producer gets 27 per cent,
the railroads 8 per cent and the retailer
% per cent OF the value OF milk, but there
is no way of.regulating the retailer. con-
sequently the railroad commissioners
want the roads to haul the milk for small.
er rates. He cites the case of -four as an
example OF cheap freight rates. A barrel
OF flour is hauled from Minneapolis to
Chicago, over 400 miles, for Is cents, but
a drayman won't touch it to move it one
block or a dozen for less than 25 cents,
yet the dray man has no invested capital
save his horse and dray, while the rail
road has millions.
Peters, Minnesota, is reported to be in
highly successful operation, and equipped
with learned and active faculty Of ten
persons. 1t is under the patronage and
control OF the Swedish Lutheran Church,
but not UNCONVENTIONAL in it's course of
instruction. On Wednesday Nov I'd and
the day following there will be festival
and dedication, at which addresses will be
delivered by Gov. McGill, Col. Madison,
John Lima, and Others
Father McDermott, OF Darwin, Is very
low With an attack OF paralysis. He is
unconscious large part OF the time
The Manitoba engineering parties run
ming the Brainard & Northwestern survey
have disbanded, having completed the
line from Aiilaca to Leech Lake. Another
party is forming for Col. Hogeland to go
beyond Leech Lake to assist the present
engineer there to get through to the Mis-
sissippi crossing below Itaska lake.
The thirteenth annual convention OF
the Young Men s Christian Association Of
Minnesota, in connection with the associa.
lions OF Dakota, was called to order at
the NJ. 3. church in Faribault by Thomas
chochran, Jr.. chairman, on the 9th.
The large three-story hotel, the Rush
City house. at Rush City, owned and con-